The 11-month-old son of a BBC staffer was killed yesterday during an air strike by the Israeli army on the Gaza strip.

Omar Misharawi, son of the BBC Arabic service's picture editor, Jihad, is said to have died in hospital from shrapnel wounds (though some earlier reports wrongly stated it was from severe burns).

His aunt was killed, and his brother and an uncle were critically injured. There is a picture here of Omar.

His father told BBC Arabic: "Shrapnel hit our house. My sister-in-law was killed along with my son. And my brother and my other son were wounded. What did my son to to die like this? What was his mistake? What did he do?"